Downsview Park. Night.
It had rained hard an hour earlier. A fine mist covered the field. Everything gleamed with wetness. It seemed an appropriate setting for The Goalden Showers. Slowly the team (minus a few key players) gathered at one end, assembled their net and waited for the other team to arrive. For some it was reuniting with old friends, for others it was was the first time they had met. Together they would make a team. The opposition eventually showed and the game began hard and fast. The Showers were tested early on but their keeper threw him self into the roll with enthusiasm keeping the ball free from the back of the net and proving once and for all that four eyes are better than two. The high point came early with a threeway between two Daves and a Lauren....passing the ball in quick succession ending with Lauren placing it neatly in the back of the the red teams net. This unfortunately was the last time the ball would be found there. The red team came back quickly with a goal and then followed that up with another in the second half. The Showers put it all on the line as the minutes ticked away and the end approached. Electricity was in the air...quit literally. Sheets of it filled the brooding sky. The final seconds ticked away and the red team claimed their win. However, The Goalden Showers to were left with a victory...this was the first step of a team and like all first steps it was a little precarious. But the victory comes in knowing that this team would soon learn to run...and the goalie to kick. It was clear that that some day soon a Goalden Shower would ran down on them all.
-taken from The Goalden Gazette
* thank you for this david quinn.
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